UN
GATE, Sept 4 -- Who
gets to decide
which media
can enter the
United Nations
to cover this
month's United
Nations
General
Assembly high
level week?

The answer in
today's UN,
not unlike in
any
dictatorship
whether China
or Cameroon,
is one man and
his small
circle of
yes-men and a
yes-women,
with no due
process, no
right to
appeal, no
judicial
oversight.

In this case
the man is
Antonio
Guterres, and
the new
yes-woman is
Melissa
Fleming. She
previously
served as his
spokesperson
during his
tenure at the
UN refugee
agency UNHCR.
Guterres
parlayed that
into the top
UN job by
showing great
deference to
China on its
refoulement to
North Korea
for torture.

And
what does
Guterres do as
Secretary
General,
beyond seeking
a second term
include by
censoring the
Press? He
issues empty
statements
about storms,
like one on
September 4.
Now this on
September 6
from US Mike
Pompeo:
" The
United States
extends its
condolences to
all those in
The Bahamas
who have lost
loved ones and
we stand with
the
communities
affected by
the
devastating
impact of
Hurricane
Dorian.
The U.S.
government is
working in
partnership
with the
Government of
The Bahamas,
including the
National
Emergency
Management
Authority, to
deliver
emergency
supplies to
address the
immediate
needs in the
wake of
Hurricane
Dorian.
The U.S.
Mission to The
Bahamas,
working
through
multiple
agencies of
the U.S.
government, is
providing
humanitarian
assistance,
search and
rescue
operations,
and other
disaster
response
measures as
well as
assisting U.S.
citizens in
the affected
areas.
At the request
of the
Bahamian
government,
the U.S.
Agency for
International
Development
(USAID) sent a
Disaster
Assistance
Response Team
to coordinate
the U.S.
response and
provide
technical
support to the
National
Emergency
Management
Authority,
which is
managing the
overall relief
effort.
This is part
of a broader
international
response
effort that
includes
Caribbean
partners, the
United
Kingdom, and
Canada, so
that the
government of
The Bahamas
can provide
lifesaving and
life
sustaining
care to their
people." The
UN is
irrelevant
under corrupt
censors
Antonio
Guterres.

Guterres took
money from
Lisbon-based
Gulbenkian
Foundation
during the
year after he
left UNHCR.
Then once
despite his
feminist
rhetoric
Guterres
shouldered out
women
candidates to
take over the
UN with
China's
support,
Guterres
omitted these
Gulbenkian
payments from
the UN public
financial
disclosure he
filed covering
2016.

When Inner
City Press
which while
reporting
daily from
inside the UN
also covered
the UN bribery
trial of CEFC
China Energy's
Patrick Ho in
the federal
courthouse in
lower
Manhattan
asked Guterres
about that
case, Guterres
refused to
answer.

Worse,
Guterres
pretended
through his
spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric to
not have even
heard Inner
City Press' question
when called on
at the UN
Security
Council
stakeout about
Cameroon and
his closeness
with 37 year
president Paul
Biya.

On 3 July 2018
Inner City
Press was
interviewing
Biya's long
time
Ambassador
Tommo Monthe
outside a
meeting of the
UN Budget
Committee that
Monthe
chaired.
Suddenly
Guterres'
security
detail, led by
UN DSS
Lieutenant
Ronald E.
Dobbins,
grabbed Inner
City Press'
computer and
twisted its
arm, video here, right in front of
Guterres'
official
Christian
Saunders, now
conducting
cover up for
him at
UNRWA.

After Inner
City Press
went to file
an assault
complaint with
the NY Police
Department on
4 July 2018
but was told
the UN is
entirely
immune, the
next day Inner
City Press was
barred from
even entering
the UN to
continue to
cover the UN
Security
Council, that
day a meeting
about Yemen as
Guterres took
money from
Saudi Crown
Prince
MBS.

After a review
that did not
afford Inner
City Press a
single hearing
or opportunity
to be heard
or to see
evidence, the
UN on 17
August 2018
formally revoked
Inner City
Press' 10-year
UN media
accreditation.

Guterres'
motive became
clear as Inner
City Press,
awaiting
reinstatement,
more closely
covered the
SDNY federal
court where it
is now fully
accredited.

Convicted
Patrick Ho's
CEFC China
Energy had
been seeking
to buy
the Partex Oil
Company from
Gulbenkian
Foundation
which paid
Guterres
undisclosed
moneys. It was
and is, in
short,
outright
personal
corruption by
Guterres, on
which he
refuses to
answer
questions.

On 24 August
2019,
alongside
continuing the
cover the SDNY
court, Inner
City Press
submitted a
simple
application to
the UN like
hundreds of
other media to
enter and
cover the UNGA
High Level
week beginning
September
23.

In response,
Inner City
Press received
a Kafka-esque
response by
Guterres' UN
Security
Gilles Michaud
that the
assault on it
was for being
in a "locked
area" - that
is, the wide
open lounge
outside the UN
Budget
Committee
meeting - and
that all UN
Security is
doing is
enforcing a
decision by
the UN Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
Unit, now
under Melissa
Fleming.

Fleming
refused to
answer any of
four letters
sent to her.
At 4:30 pm on
Friday, August
30 her MALU
issued a
one-line
denial of
access:
"Greetings
Matthew Lee
from Inner
City
Press,
Your media
accreditation
request, with
reference no:
M5413398, has
been declined
for the
following
reason: Media
accreditation
was withdrawn
on 17 August
2018."

So Guterres'
lawless UN can
withdraw a
critical
media's
accreditation
for daring to
ask why he
omitted from
his financial
disclosure
payments from
a company
selling its
oil company to
a Chinese
government
bribery
vehicle - then
use the
withdrawal to
automatically
deny access to
the UN General
Assembly, the
so-called
global
parliament of
"We the
Peoples."

If press
freedom means
anything, and
if the UN is
anything more
than a
dictatorship
of a single
corrupt
censor, this
cannot stand.

Inner
City Press
will be
reporting on
the UN and its
UNGA either
way - but
demands to be
allowed to
enter and
cover the
often shameful
deals of
undemocratic
nations, like
the hundreds
of their state
media that
Guterres lets
in to praise
him.

The
peoples demand
the fall of
this Guterres
regime.

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